Yearly Archives: 2021

Mali accuses France of training ‘terrorists’ in the country

África, África Ocidental, Crise Política, França, Mali, Terrorismo

Via: Aljazeera

Mali’s Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga has told the Russian media he has evidence that France has been training “terrorist” groups operating in the West African country. Maiga said French troops had created an enclave in Kidal, a town in the desert region of northern Mali, and handed it over to a “terrorist group” known as Ansar al-Din, allegedly linked to al-Qaeda. He said the Malian military was banned from entering the territory. “Mali has no access to Kidal, this is an enclave controlled by France,” Russia Today reported citing Maiga’s interview to state-owned RIA Novosti on Friday (08/10).

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Nobel Prize for literature awarded to Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

África, Prêmio Nobel, Tanzânia

Via: Onmanorama

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees,” the award-winning body said on Thursday. Based in Britain, Gurnah is the first African writer to win the award since Zimbabwean Doris Lessing in 2007 and only the second black writer from sub-Saharan Africa after Nigerian Wole Soyinka, who won in 1986. His novels include “Paradise”, set in colonial East Africa during World War I and was selected for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and “Desertion”.

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Troops assemble on highway to Tigray front line

África, Crise Política, Etiópia

Via: AfricaNews

Ethiopian troops and a militia in the country’s Amhara region have been mobilizing following a series of attacks by Tigray forces, according to British broadcaster Sky News. The war that began last November was confined at first to Ethiopia’s sealed-off northern Tigray region. Accounts of atrocities often emerged long after they occurred: Tigrayans described gang-rapes, massacres and forced starvation by federal forces and their allies from Amhara and neighboring Eritrea. The Tigray forces retook much of their home region in a stunning turn in June, and now the fighting has spilled into Amhara.

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